Maurice LaMarche
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Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
His signature voice is an impersonation of Orson Welles. LaMarche provided the voice of the animated character The Brain in Pinky and the Brain, who is modeled after Welles; many Pinky and the Brain episodes are nods to Welles' career. LaMarche has voiced Welles himself on occasion. He dubbed over the voice of Vincent D'Onofrio's performance of Welles in the film Ed Wood and parodied Welles again in The Critic in which a video disolves into a commercial for Mrs. Pells Fishsticks (as well as another for Rosebud Frozen Peas), and most recently in The Simpsons's Treehouse of Horror XVII - "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" a parody based on the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still as a radio broadcaster. His voice of Father (aka Mr. Wigglestein/Benedict Uno) on Codename: Kids Next Door is based on another actor, Kirk Douglas. In "Ghostbusters of the Year", an episode of The Real Ghostbusters (in which he provided the voice of Dr. Egon Spengler), he played a "Citizen Kane" type ghost, Charles Foster Hearse.
[edit] Filmography
- Pirate and Thurdigree Burns in Casper's Scare School
- The Kraken, a sea monster, and Hovis the butler on Catscratch
- Chief Quimby in Inspector Gadget
- Inspector Gadget in various Inspector Gadget spinoff incarnations
- The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight and The Fin (aka Mr. Smarty Pants) in The Tick
- Numerous secondary characters in Futurama including Kif Kroker, Morbo, Calculon, Horrible Gelatinous Blob, Lrrr, and Brainspawn, as well as a robot spoof of Alan Alda's M*A*S*H character Hawkeye Pierce, in the Futurama episode "War is the H-Word"
- Recurring character Jeremy Hawke in The Critic. He also did various other voices, such as the aforementioned Orson Welles parody.
- Egon Spengler in the many incarnations of the Ghostbusters cartoons
- Alec Baldwin in the 2004 feature film, Team America: World Police.
- Mortimer Mouse in Mickey Mouse Works and Disney's House of Mouse
- Kellogg's Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam
- George C. Scott in The Simpsons episode A Star is Burns. He would later appear in the 17th season as the voice of Commander McBragg in the episode The Seemingly Never-Ending Story. He would also appear as the voice of Orson Welles in Treehouse of Horror XVII.
- Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold! Also, in a Hey Arnold Halloween episode, he also voiced an alien hunter, using his Orson Welles voice.
- Xiaolin Showdown - Master Fung (Seasons 2–3), Chucky Coo, and many others
- Balto in the second and third animated Balto movies, released only on DVD and video
- The animated Willy Wonka character in Nestlé's Willy Wonka Candy Company commercials
- Henry, Mr. Wilson and Ruff from Dennis the Menace
- The android Gus in Tripping the Rift
- Numerous secondary characters in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
- Nestor in Full Throttle
- Yoshimo and Renal Bloodscalp in the award-winning RPG, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
- Principal Pixiefrog, Mr. Hornbill, Mr. Mandrill, and Mr. Blowhole in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
- Larry the Tomato in the Drawn Together episode "Clum Babies", and Mr. Georgiopolis in the episode "Freaks & Greeks"
- Dishonest John in a 1988 revival of Beany and Cecil
- Mr. No and Naginata in Shuriken School
- Professor Lerner in the King of the Hill episode Arrow Head
- Ratman in Dexter's Laboratory
- Himself in "Behind the Voices", a featurette included with the Comic Book: The Movie DVD.
- Zix in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron.
- Geezo in The Emperor's New School episode, Gold Fools
- Zoltan (leader of the Gang Of Five) in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series
